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Contents : Agri-Food System Trends and Issues AGR-1250 Winter 2012 Course Outline Instructors Fran ois Tardif ftardif@uoguelph.ca Stewart Skinner skinners@uoguelph.ca Katie Wood kwood@uoguelph.ca Teaching Assistants Andrew Reid Donald Skinner Andrew McKenzie-Gopsill Class Times Monday Wednesday & Friday 10:30-11:20 Rm 204 LA Labs (All labs are in Rm 121 Crop Science Building) Monday 11:30-1:20 Monday 1:30-3:20 Monday 3:30-5:20 Tuesday 1:30-3:20 Wednesday 3:30-5:20 Thursday 11:30-1:20 Course Objectives This course will improve the critical appreciation and understanding of students for the breadth and complexity of the agriculture and food system. Students will understand the ways in which consumers empower the various components of the agri-food system. They will gain experience in understanding some major issues and consumer trends in the food system including those related to environment food safety and animal welfare. After this course students are expected to be able to: 1. Describe the major interrelationships between the science technology and socioeconomics of the agri-food system demographic trends and the quality of the environment 2. Understand current public issues that are relevant to the agri-food system 3. Communicate an understanding of the agri-food system orally and in writing and 4. Develop interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Lab Dates and Assignment Schedule Week of Week 2 Jan 16-20 Material Covered Excel basics Food basket and consumption Writing assignment given Assignment Due Week 4 Jan 30-Feb 3 Labelling and govt regulation Labelling assignment Writing assignment draft Week 6 Feb 13-17 Problem solving Problem solving assignment Week 8 Mar 5-9 Presentation skills Food basket assignment Week 9 Mar 12-16 Presentations - Groups 1 and 2 Writing assignment final copy Questions Groups 3 and 5 Week 10 Mar 19-23 Presentations - Groups 3 and 4 Questions Groups 1 and 6 Week 11 Mar 26-30 Presentations - Groups 5 and 6 Questions Groups 2 and 4 None Details on the assignments are provided in the handouts available on Courselink. Student Evaluation Assignments Nutritional Labeling and Gov t Regulation Problem solving Problem Based Writing (Letter to the Editor) Food Basket and Food Consumption Group Assignment Total 4% 4% 10% 5% 12% Midterm (Friday February 10 in class) Final Exam Total (Monday April 9 2:30-4:30) 35% 30% 35% 100% All assignments are due at the beginning of the lab period on the date indicated. Penalties for late hand-ins of assignments will be exacted at the rate of 20 percentage points per day. Students who wish to claim illness or compassionate reasons for missing assignment deadlines or examinations must submit the appropriate certificates or verifications as indicated in the University of Guelph Undergraduate Calendar. Marks will be posted on Courselink as material is completed. Academic Misconduct Students charged with academic misconduct often cite ignorance of what constitutes academic misconduct. The following are some common examples of academic misconduct. Quotation marks - plagiarism has occurred if the author does not place quotation marks around word-for-word copying of print or electronic format source material even though the source is correctly cited. To further reduce the possibility that a quotation will be misrepresented or mistaken as one's own work instructors may request that quotations be italicized or double indented. Degree of fidelity to sources - plagiarism has occurred if the author's writing is clearly recognizable as essentially derived from cited or uncited print or electronic format sources even though the author has altered the original source material by inverting word or sentence order or substituting synonyms. Authors should summarize and synthesize ideas and concepts rather than interchange words. Group projects - teams working on group projects should practice group dynamics (such as meetings of the whole group review of each other's work and discussion of academic misconduct) that will discourage individuals from contributing plagiarized material. Groups may bear collective responsibility for the academic integrity of their project. Identical individual projects - plagiarism will be strongly suspected if two or more students submit individual projects that are substantially identical. Editing answers - it is an improper academic practice to add delete or edit answers after the exam period has concluded or using prohibited materials during an exam. Take time to learn what constitutes academic misconduct and the possible consequences. This information can be found in the Undergraduate calendar under Academic Misconduct.

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